300 



ICIINKUMONTDJ:. 



2 



and sciipe palt 



I'liIijcUstnt^ cri/tliroputi, Cam. 



i.^14. Polyclistns erythropus, Cxm. 



HaocJius eri/fJiropt(s, Cameroi:,* .Idiivii. IJonibav Nat. lli.'^t. Soc. 

 190:?, p. "li'-'^lS). 



A sliiniiiir black species, MJtli only llie legs, mouth 

 I/ctid iiarrovver tliau thorax and abruptly 

 constricted behind the iuternally 

 slightly eniarginate eyes ; occiput 

 abruptly sloping and a little concave; 

 frojis finely punctulate, centrally 

 convex, with nocariiia;; face strongly 

 ])rotuberant, evenly convex and tinely 

 pmictate, red beneaXh the scrobes 

 and not discrete from the apically 

 iunnarginate and truncate; cly|)eus ; 

 mandibles weak, rufescent, with their 

 a])ices hardly darker, palpi tlavescent. 

 Anfeniiii' somewhat shorter than the 

 body, setaceous, with the llagellar 

 joints apically subnodulous, black, 

 M ith the scape entirely testaceous. Thoi-ax stout and immaculate 

 black ; mesonotum distinctly and not very finely punctate and 

 pilose, with notauli elongate ; metanotum ob.soletely punctate, 

 with complete area; ; basal area minute and subcircular ; areola 

 parallel-sided, twice as long as broad, apically rectangular and 

 basally curved, emitting costulie a little before its centre ; petiolar 

 iirea subvertical, entire and basally strong; spiracles elongate and 

 not small. >SaiteUuin finely punctate and immaculate. Ahdomen 

 nitidulous, punctate and ])ilose througiiout; two basal segments 

 laterally margined, the first laterally a little explanate throughout, 

 ■with the disc bicarinate to its centre ; venter piceous, terebra 

 slightly exserted. Le(js entirely testaceous, with oidy the claws 

 and pulvilli infuscate ; intermediate calcaria equal, hind ones 

 unequal. TFi;;//s hyaline and not broad; areolet wanting ; radix 

 and tegula; testaceous, stigma piceous ; basal nervure hardly 

 continuous ; nervellus nearly antef'urcal and intercepted near its 

 lower angle. 



Length G millim. 



Punjab : Simla, viii. 98 {Col. Xnrsc). 

 Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



The only example I have seen, besides the type, is in the 

 Oxford Museum ; it is labelled "India, Boys," and is remarkable 

 in having a well-defined areolet in the left wing and no trace of 

 one in the right. 



Genus TRICLISTUS, Forst. 

 Tridistus, Fcirster, Verb. pr. Ifheinl. 1868, p. 101. 

 Genotype, Exochus podagricus, Grav. 



Head more or less strongly buccate, with the Irons impressed 

 on either side and in the centre carinate between the antenna^ 



